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Oct 5

Thrilled to celebrate #HHMIInvestigator Karl Deisseroth, winner of the '26 @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in developing optogenetics, allowing scientists to directly test how specific neural circuits contribute to behavior & disease: bit.ly/4huCFVb.

A graphic announcing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Karl Deisseroth, HHMI Investigator at Stanford University. Deisseroth stands outdoors in front of a green ivy-covered wall, wearing a light gray shirt and looking directly at the camera. Gold geometric node-and-line designs frame the upper corners of the image. A green banner across the lower portion displays "2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" in white serif text, with "Karl Deisseroth" and "HHMI Investigator | Stanford University" below it in white against a dark background.

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Oct 28

Postdoctoral scientist ready to lead your own lab? Applications for our #HannaGray Fellows Program — aka “your launchpad to a faculty career" — open 11/3! Robust funding, a thriving scientific community, & so much more. Register now: bit.ly/4yFH10Z

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Oct 27

A bacterial antiviral defense system discovered by #HHMIInvestigator Samuel Sternberg & colleagues @Columbia could be a future gene editor, improving cellular health & cancer therapies — & may share an ancestor that illuminates how complex life evolved: bit.ly/4ihp7gl

HHMI Investigator Samuel Sternberg stands smiling with arms crossed in a research laboratory. He wears a navy plaid blazer over a white checked shirt. Behind him, shelves hold reagent bottles with orange caps and boxes of lab supplies, and the bench beside him holds a digital heat block and racks of tubes with green caps.

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Oct 26

While there's no cure for HIV, new research from #HHMIInvestigator Michel Nussenzweig & colleagues found that broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can work with a patient’s own antibodies to suppress the virus, pointing to ways to improve bNAb therapy: bit.ly/4B8xF0k

HHMI Investigator Michel Nussenzweig smiles in a research laboratory, one hand resting on a lab bench. He wears tinted wire-rimmed glasses, a dark navy collared sweater, and gray trousers. Behind him, shelves hold reagent bottles and lab supplies, and wash bottles sit on the bench beside him.

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Oct 26

Calling all 2nd- & 3rd-year PhD students: #GilliamFellows applications close TOMORROW 10/27, 11:59 PM ET! Don't miss your chance at up to 3 yrs of PhD support, an incredible scientific community, prof dev for you & your faculty PhD advisor, & so much more bit.ly/4kiJsTD.

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Oct 22

#HHMIInvestigator Harmit Malik & team @fredhutch thrive on competition — between genomes, that is. Researchers study how viruses & proteins rapidly evolve to keep up with their foes, uncovering insights that could inform the development of new antivirals: bit.ly/3U5yQNq

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Oct 21

Calling all rising undergrad juniors & seniors: 9 weeks, mentorship from top scientists, up to $15K stipend to support "the most incredible" summer research experience. Want to learn more? Register for our live, #CechFellows webinar 10/26, 4pm ET! ➡️ bit.ly/4zKhIM8

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Oct 21

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And find additional program and application details at bit.ly/4dRWYJZ

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Oct 19

Celebrating #HHMIInvestigator Dana Pe’er (@MSKCancerCenter) on her election as a member of @theNAMedicine! Recognized for pioneering foundational computational frameworks to infer cellular information from single-cell & spatial data, & more: bit.ly/4ysMYyk

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Oct 15

How do you rebuild your entire body to survive somewhere new? Land crabs’ ancestors lived entirely in the ocean — #HannaGray Fellow Victoria Watson-Zink wants to understand what genetic toolkit they reached for to evolve new diets, lungs, & more: bit.ly/3TYux6g.

HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Victoria Watson-Zink smiles as she looks through a stereo microscope at a lab bench. She wears black nitrile gloves and holds a fine tool beneath the lens, lit by two flexible gooseneck lights. She wears a sage-green blouse and gold hoop earrings. Behind her, shelves hold boxes of lab supplies, and colorful paper cutouts hang along the edge of an upper shelf.

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Oct 15

A new lab has launched at HHMI Janelia! Led by Group Leader @RLincolnChemist, the Lincoln Lab combines photochemistry, comp modeling, & physical chemistry to engineer next-gen fluorescence microscopy tools for Tools@HHMI bit.ly/3Vq0mFI

📸 Richard Lincoln &Matthew Benton

Three stacked fluorescence microscopy images of tissue from a small fish, against a black background. A long, narrow structure extends from the left and widens at the right into several rounded lobes. In the top panel, it glows bright blue. In the middle panel, it glows red-orange and yellow, surrounded by scattered red specks. In the bottom panel, the two channels are overlaid, and the structure appears pink and violet with red specks around it.

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Oct 12

Early career faculty? #FreemanHrabowski Scholar applications open Nov. 3! In the words of current Scholar @Cladoni, “Don’t think twice — apply." Register now to check your eligibility, preview the application, unlock additional resources, & more: bit.ly/fhs26

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Oct 12

It took >60yrs to develop long-lasting, preventive antibody treatments for RSV, & #HHMIInvestigator Jesse Bloom & co’s new deep mutational scanning method found resistance-associated RSV variants are rare — good news for infants & other vulnerable groups: bit.ly/4d8lBlp.

HHMI Investigator Jesse Bloom stands outdoors with arms crossed, smiling slightly at the camera. He wears glasses, a short-sleeved plaid shirt in purple, blue, and tan, and a black digital wristwatch. Behind him, a softly blurred brick-and-glass building rises above green trees.

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Oct 11

Every cell has an organelle signature — a “fingerprint” created from the shape, size & arrangement of its internal structures. HHMI scientists can now read these signatures across 1000s of cells, revealing how tissues adapt to diet & disease bit.ly/4j6DmoH 📹FelicianoLab

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Oct 8

Every cell in our body comes from 1 fertilized egg — & now we can trace that dev. #HHMIInvestigators Jonathan Weissman & Jay Shendure & teams have created new tools that generate maps of the origin & outcome of vast numbers of cells in a developing mouse: bit.ly/4dVhnhe

Two stacked portraits. Top: HHMI Investigator Jonathan S. Weissman of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research smiles in a research lab, wearing glasses and a white lab coat with “Weissman” stitched on the chest. Pipettes and lab equipment fill the bench beside him. Bottom: HHMI Investigator Jay Shendure of the University of Washington smiles at his desk, wearing glasses and a gray collared shirt with a small clip-on microphone. Behind him are framed photos, a child’s drawing pinned to the wall, and a computer monitor displaying lines of green text on a dark terminal window.

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Oct 7

Proteins can reshape themselves in less than a millisecond. Now, #HHMIInvestigator Dorothee Kern & team have developed a machine learning model to predict these rapid changes, & it could help uncover new connections between protein movement & human health: bit.ly/4d6klPH

HHMI Investigator Dorothee Kern stands smiling with one hand on her hip beside a large white cylindrical scientific instrument marked with blue lettering. She wears a sleeveless black top with a woven neckline and ruffled front, a wide white woven belt with an oversized silver buckle, and white pants. Behind her are a wooden support beam, equipment cabinets, and an orange warning light.

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Oct 6

Congratulations to #HHMIInvestigator Kevan Shokat (@UCSF), awarded @sgpcri's '26 Stephenson Global Prize for his groundbreaking cancer research. By discovering a way to disable the cancer-driving protein KRAS, Shokat launched a new era in cancer treatment: bit.ly/47mCi9b

"Portrait of Kevan Shokat, HHMI Investigator at the University of California, San Francisco, wearing a blue lab coat and smiling in a laboratory setting. Green banner reads 'Stephenson Global Prize.' Text below reads 'Kevan Shokat, HHMI Investigator | University of California, San Francisco.'"

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The Nobel Prize

Oct 5

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Deisseroth (@Stanford) shares the prize with Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg Nagel of University of Würzburg, for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels.

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